Example sentences of "i looked [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It was only after I 'd stopped doing that and gone into the corner to have a piss that I looked over into the other corner where there was a pile of rusty cans and old bottles ; there I saw the jagged stripes of the sleeping snake . |
2 | I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise . |
3 | I looked round at the two dead Germans lying in the middle of the road . |
4 | I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old . |
5 | I looked round for a living man to admire and follow . |
6 | I looked round for a split second . |
7 | As I looked round in the pale dawn light , a piece of paper caught my eye . |
8 | Slowly I looked around at the other boys . |
9 | I looked around at the other passengers and tried to start a conversation . |
10 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
11 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
12 | Oh I looked up about the last , the last essay I did cos it was about erm |
13 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
14 | I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin . |
15 | Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room . |
16 | I looked up at the French NCO , he steps forward and orders two Germans to pick up their Officer and the other two to pick up and carry the wounded Commando . |
17 | I looked up at the concrete-grey sky , still surprisingly free of graffiti . |
18 | I looked up into a bloated quivering face with three days ' growth of beard . |
19 | I looked out over the empty white road to the sky and saw the morning sun sparkling . |
20 | Crossing the humpy floor , I looked out of a doorless doorway and saw , half hidden in the grass , the red tiles of the porch where the young Harvey-Beaumonts had sat , celebrating St George 's Day by tapping their feet to the brassy music of the band of the Black and Tans . |
21 | I looked out of the tiny window over her shoulder , willing myself to make it slow , to make it last . |
22 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
23 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
24 | I looked back at the first . |
25 | Wistfully , I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well . |
26 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
27 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |
28 | Outside on the terrace , at the point from where Francis used to dive , and made the dive that killed him , I looked down into the moon-flecked pool . |
29 | Dazed , I looked down at a little girl with wide , solemn eyes . |
30 | I looked down at the perfect rosebud lips , the determined chin and the tiny clenched fists of my cub . |